Improved clothes-drier



,Louis WINTERHALDER AND DAVID wILsoN, or NEWYORK; N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 88,937, dated April 13, 1869.

IMPROVED CLOTHES-DRIER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the saine.

To all 'whom tt may concern:

Be it known that we, LOUIS WINTEEHALDER and DAVID WILSON, of New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Clothes-Blier, andwe do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact 'description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being` had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciiication, in whichl Figure l represents a planor top view of our iinproved clothes-drier, expanded.

Figure 2 is a detail sectional plan View of the same, showing it folded together.

Figure 3 i's a detail top View of one of thebars.

Figure 4 is a side view, partly in section, on an enlarged scale, of the drier.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

' This invention relatesv to a new clothes-drier, of that class in which a series of bars is pivoted to a frame, in such manner that they can be folded apart, to form the drier, or together, when not to be used.

Our invention, consists, rst, in a novel manner of arranging the several bars, so that they will clamp the articleshung on them, by the application to them of removable clamping-bars, as hereinafter more fully described. Y

The invention also consists in the application of a setting-device, whereby the bars can be folded together to either side, as may be desired.

The invention finally consists in pivoting and arranging the swinging-bars in vsuch manner `that they willstand in the requisite positions when swung apart.

A, in the drawing, represents the supporting-plate or block, on which our improved clothes-drier is arranged.

This plate is made of metal, or other suitable material, and is slotted, or perforated near its ends, so that it can, by. means of screws, or nails a a, be readily fastened to a wall, B, or other suitable support.

From the face of the plate A project two ears on lugs b b, which 'are the supports of the piu C, by which all the bars, D D, constituting our drier are pivoted.

The bars D D are of wood, or other suitable material, and of suitable length. 'lhey are enlarged at their inner ends to tit over the pivot C, as shown.

'The enlarged portion, c, of veach bar D, has a curved groove, d, concentric with the axis of the pivot G, as in iid. 3.

Inoto these grooves are fitted projecting pins e e, projecting from the adjoining bars D, as indicated in ti f. 4.

When the bars are folded together, as in g. 4, the pins c stand in the middle of the grooves, as indicated in fie. 3.

The bars are then allowed to swin g to either side, but

l only as far as the pins can travel in the grooves.

The bar D, at one end, has only a pin, and .no

l groove, and that D2, on the otherv end, only a groove,

and no pin, which is evident.

To the outer side of one of the outer bars, Dl or D2, is fastened a projecting pin, f, which is locked under one of two spring-hooks g Il., that project from the plate A, as in iig. 2, when locked under the spring g, asin the drawing, thevbar thus held will not be allowed to swing on the pivot, and consequently the other bars can, when expanded, only be moved toward h.

When folded together, all the bars will be onthat side on which the spring gis arranged. The pin f can, however, be liberated from g, by slight pressure on the same, and can then be locked under h, so as to hold the bars, when4 folded together, all on the opposite Vside.

Gn the outer end of each bar D is arranged a projectin g eye, t', fastened to a metal cap, j, that is fitted on the end of the bar, or otherwise attached, and in line with the eye is, on the thickpart C of each bar, a slot, or recess, It.

A slender rod, E, can be tted, with one end into the eye t', and with the other into the recess k, as shown in the drawing.

The articles to be dried are hung over the bars D, when the same are folded apart, as in iig. 1, and are then clamped by applying the rods E, whereby the use of clothes-pins, or other fastening devices is dispensed with.

The rod E secures at once all the garments or articles hung over a whole bar, `D.

WVe are aware that the swinging arms of clothesdrcrs have been furnished with metallic lugs, so that they can swing to both sides, and be arrested when swung far enough. This we do not claim.

Having thus described our invention,

We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- V 1. The application of the rods E to the bars D, of a clothes-drier, when secured in the slots 7c, and by theeyes i, to secure the clothes to the bars, in placeA `of clothes-pins, as set forth.

2. The springs gh, arranged on the plate A, to lock the bars D to the desired side, by means of the pins f, substantially as described. Y

3. The bars D, when provided with the grooves d and pins e, substantially as described, so that they can swing to both sides, and be arrested when swung far enough to either side, as specified.

4. A clothes-drier, consisting of the plate A, pivot C, bars D, rods E, springs q h, and pins e and f, all combined and operatingl substantially as herein shown and described.

LOUIS WINTERHALDER. DAVID W'ILSON. Witnesses:

FRANK BLooKnnY, t ALEX. F. Renners. 

